Interest Group Vocab
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- litigation
- to take issue to court-effective:only need to convince 5 out of the 9 justices
- PAC
- committees formed to take contributions and give to support candidate that favors their issue the most
- coalition building
- two different groups form to fight a single issue ex: business and environmental group fight toxic waste
- free rider problem
- benefits given to people who don't donate to service ex: people watching public TV and never donating
- lobbyist
- a representative of an interest group
- interest group entrepreneur
- an interest group leader or organizer
- agenda building
- th process by which interest groups make govt aware of issue and try to make them solve it
- trade association
- group that represents businesses within certain industry ex: milk production agency reps interests with biz concerning milk products
- grip and grin
- go to meetings or conventions with senators to smile and convince for their support in issues
- citizen group
- lobbying organizations built around policy concerns unrelated to members' vocational interests ex:environ interest group
- lobby
- an organized group of individuals that seeks to influence public policy (interest group)
- direct mail
- mail sent from interest groups to individual homes trying to get their support-not much feedback
- grassroots lobbying
- get everyone local involved through letter writing campaigns and protests
- revolving door
- people who take turns in jobs as lobbyist and congressmen-gain lots of govt experience
- program monitoring
- keeping track of govt programs, usually by interest group
- information campaign
- an organized effort to gain public backing by bringing a group's views to public attention
- membership bias
- the tendency of some sectors of society-esp the wealthy, the highly educated, professionals, and those in biz-to organize more readily into interest groups
- direct lobbying
- making as many face to face contacts as possible to get support & supply them with facts